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Luminar Neo - My First Impressions

Mystical Woods - move mouse over  for an before / after     In December of last year I was asked whether I'd like to take a look and try out the photo edit software Luminar Neo. So I was provided with the program and the extensions pack. At the moment there are seven extensions available, I installed four of them that I thought could be useful in my workflow. These are Noiseless Ai, Upscale Ai, Supersharp Ai and Magic Light Ai.  Until I was asked to try Luminar Neo, I had not heard of the program, but the opportunity to partner with Skylum and make some additional money convinced me to take a look. That means: This text contains affiliate links. What is Luminar Neo? Skylum's Luminar Neo is a photo editing tool that makes editing your photos quite simple. Many of its features are enhanced by artificial intelligence that lead to sometimes stunning results and are intuitive and easy to use. LUMINAR NEO - special offer until 28 February 2023 Lightroom and Photoshop plugin I almo
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Free Texture Wednesday VIII

Hello, I am busy working on a colorful Spring Texture Pack, which is about to be released in a few days. At the moment I am using them on a variety of new pictures and I must say I am enjoying what beautiful effect they have...

Anyway, all that creatting and testing kept me from posting, so I thought I give away one freebie that will be available in the Build Your Own Texture Pack.
Please click on the picture to download the texture from Picasa!


Vintage Grunge
Aus Free textures


I used this texture on one of my forest fog pictures and it added to the already dense atmosphere:


   
As usual I also made a screen shot of the PS layers to show how I used the texture:







To get a rather strong texture effect I first used it in Multiply mode and then copied it and brightened up the whole picture using Soft Light at 30%. Because the Multiply layer made the tree trunks too dark I made a selection and added a layer mask at 50% to recover some light and detail on the trees.
By applying curves I enhanced the contrast and finished with levels trying to add some light to the yellow fog.

 Hope to see you back here in  a few days when I will be launching the new textures.

Thanks!

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